Cognos Insight

IBM® Cognos® Insight is a personal analytics solution that empowers users to independently explore, analyze, visualize and share data without relying on IT for assistance. In minutes, analysts and line-of-business managers can create and share custom applications, dashboards and visualizations to help solve individual and workgroup challenges.

Build custom dashboards and applications without scripting to see data in a way that makes sense to you and your business.

Optimize outcomes through what-if analysis any time – even when you are not connected to a server.

Create compelling visualizations to help you deliver insights in the most meaningful and understandable way for your role or organization.

Support collaboration and action at the team or enterprise level – share applications independently or publish your work to a Cognos server.

Choose business analytics that grows with you – Cognos Insight comes in three editions to meet the needs of individual users, workgroups and midsize organizations, and entire enterprises.

Import, merge and analyze any type of data

Work with personal and corporate data, as well as trusted business intelligence (BI) data and reports without scripting. Connect to local files, databases, existing BI reports and even predictive data.

Add to or revise existing data, and automatically apply changes across large data sets with powerful data spreading functions.

Create custom dashboards and applications without scripting

Break down and examine data to view it in a way that makes the most sense to you or your business using your mouse to navigate.

Use exception highlighting to compare and demonstrate exceptions in your data on the fly.

Go from raw data to analysis and a published dashboard in as little as 60 seconds.

Optimize outcomes through what-if analysis

Analyze and optimize your plans based on different assumptions that take into account ever-changing market conditions.

Model best-case, worst-case and most-likely outcomes based on your key business drivers.

Create custom rules that can be used to automatically perform comparisons or calculations.

Start with the free Cognos Insight Personal Edition, which has the tools you need to explore, analyze and visualize data from the convenience of your desktop. Download the Personal Edition at www.analyticszone.com (Link resides outside of ibm.com).

When you need to share your insights and import data from multiple sources, upgrade to the Cognos Insight Standard Edition.

License Cognos Insight with IBM Cognos Express or IBM Cognos Enterprise when you are ready to grow into broader capabilities, such as managed reporting and forecasting.

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Right-click built-in calculations

Choose from a variety of easy to access menu options with a single click of your mouse. In this case, built in calculations can be applied or customized to fit the needs of a BI or planning and forecast dashboard.

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Write to cells

Cognos Insight lets you write directly into the cells without any scripting, compare values or make duplicates of your columns or rows for forecasting scenarios, and then display your dashboard in a format that fits your needs.

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Publish files

Use Cognos Insight Personal Edition to create personal dashboards, Cognos Insight Standard Edition for team and departmental needs, and share your files or publish them to the Cognos server for enterprisewide consumption.

IBM Cognos Insight introduces analytics solutions for everyone

IBM Cognos Insight is now available in three editions to meet the data analysis and visualization needs of virtually anyone, including individual users, workgroups and midsize organizations, and entire enterprises.

Extend content created with Insight to other Cognos tools and interfaces like mobile and web.

Use Insight as the connected or disconnected interface to contribute to a managed planning process.

Get access to the Cognos Insight Community for samples, tutorials, videos, webinars and forums.

You may already be entitled to use Cognos Insight at no additional cost if you have Cognos deployed within your organization. Entitlements are included with a variety of user roles in Cognos Express and Cognos Enterprise servers.

Personal Edition

Standard Edition

Licensed with Cognos Express or Cognos Enterprise roles

Commercial use and/or file sharing permitted

No

Yes

Yes

Import data from xls/csv

Yes

Yes

Yes

Import data from databases

No

Yes

Yes

Import from pre-built Cognos BI reports or Framework Manager packages

No

Yes [1]

Yes

Save work locally

Yes

Yes

Yes

Share results with other Cognos Insight users

No

Yes

Yes

Publish data and UI to a Cognos Server

No

No

Yes [2]

Reuse and extend published content with Web, Mobile and other server user interfaces

No

No

Yes

Operating systems supported

Windows

Windows

Windows

Subscription and support

AnalyticsZone.com only

Yes

Yes

Cost

Free

$515 USD

Included with various roles

Note: Prices subject to change. Cognos Enterprise is Cognos Insight, Business Intelligence and TM1. Cognos Express may not bundle the most recent version of Cognos Insight. Publishing to a Cognos Server requires at least one appropriate Cognos Administrator role.

[1] Requires user to also be licensed to access reports and packages from a Cognos Business Intelligence server.